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The First Harry Potter Film Opens

November 16, 2001

On this day in 2001, Christian parents everywhere who kept
their children from reading the “Harry Potter” books had a new problem to deal
with. The film version of the first book opened in theaters. Based on the story
written by J.K. Rowling, the movie was consistent with the story about Harry
and his adventures at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is
said that Rowling first got the idea for writing about Harry while riding a
train from Manchester to London in 1990. She began writing that very night. The
struggling single mother’s book was rejected by a number of publishers before
she got a deal with Bloomsbury Publishing in 1996. That book led to six more
and all of them became best sellers. To date, the Harry Potter films are the
most financially successful series in history.

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